Picture Bride (1994)

Akira Takayama: Matsuji

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Quotes 

• Matsuji : I shouldn't have sent that old photo of myself.

  Kanzaki : Hey, you took a gamble. Besides, if you hadn't sent it, you might still be alone, eh?

• Matsuji : [after Riyo cooks the same food several days in a row]  Croquettes, again? City food! Why didn't you just marry a city boy?

• Matsuji : You're so lucky you got a nice country wife.

  Kanzaki : [drunkenly]  Kana too good for me. Every time she looks at me with those tired eyes, she makes me so mad. I feel like a failure.

  Matsuji : I don't deserve Riyo, either. If we had stayed in Japan, we would still be miserable millet and barley farmers.

  Kanzaki : [hitting Matsuji playfully]  What kind of Japanese are you, to say that?

  Matsuji : [laughing]  I AM Japanese!

• Riyo : [after receiving her work payment]  This can't be right! There should be more. I worked so hard...

  Matsuji : Let's see.

  [shuffles through Riyo's money] 

  Matsuji : No, it's all there. 65 cents a day minus things you buy at the plantation store. That comes to eleven dollars for the month. See, going back to Japan isn't as easy as you thought.